Master Personal Trainer Course | HITuni

Are You Ready To Become The Best In The Field?

If you want to accelerate your career and become one of the best in the personal training field then our Masters course is the right choice for you. All the foundational content of our Personal Trainers certification is included, to ensure you have the core knowledge and competences covered.

This foundational content includes anatomy and physiology, to the code of ethics that will drive your business, HIT protocol built from the basics to advanced concepts, important legal issues around personal training and nutritional consulting, how to create routines, how to optimise both your own and your clients exercise, how to run sessions and interact with clients and much more.

The Masters course goes far beyond this: the Advanced Training Techniques module is expanded to include 20 advanced techniques to use in your own training and that of your clients. The Introduction to Special Populations module from the PT course is massively expanded on, going into much greater detail and covering many more populations.

Then there is the addition of three completely new, ground breaking modules exclusive to the Masters course: Wellbeing: Stress Resilience and Peak Performance, Building Your Business and Essentials of Marketing.

And this all is provided to you via HITuni’s state of the art online user-friendly platform filled with video lectures, course notes, images, photos and exercise demonstrations. You need no prior qualification or even past experience to benefit from the course and you will get lifetime access, even after you have completed the course.

On successful completion of your examination, you will be certified by HITuni, to teach HIT to others as one of our elite level Master Personal Trainers.

The MPT course in numbers

Learn more about HITuni and our courses

Course Overview

The twelve modules of the Masters course each consist of a series of lessons delivered via fast streaming video lectures with a presenter and visuals that engage the mind, giving you the best seat in the classroom.

The videos are backed up with in depth course notes and images that explain the video concepts in greater detail. At the start of each module, there are links provided to relevant research papers, recommended reading and other documents, to help you to expand your learning.

Let’s take a look at the modules of the Master Personal Trainer course in a little more detail:

Module 1: Professionalism and Personal Training

After a welcome to the course, we’ll dive straight into Professionalism and Personal Training to discover an Ethical Code that will drive your success as a Personal Trainer, we’ll cover fundamental legal issues that you must be aware of, what your responsibilities to your clients really are, and how to adhere to health and safety concerns.

Module 2: The Benefits of Exercise

The next module is called the Benefits of Exercise and this is where we really start to present an overview of the physiological and psychological benefits both you and your clients will attain from HIT exercise and the results that are attainable from just 1-2, 12-20 minute workouts per week. This is valuable information and once you have absorbed it you will be able to concisely explain to potential clients how they will benefit from your expertise.

Module 3: The Human Body and Exercise

Having taken in this overview it is time to broaden and deepen your learning in the next module: The Human Body and Exercise. This is Anatomy and Physiology structured and delivered in a way that makes it easy to absorb. Your learning and understanding of this module will give you the underpinnings of knowledge that will make your understanding of the principles of HIT concrete. The foundations of HIT are built on anatomical and physiological science and this module explains the principles of A & P and how they relate to HIT practically.

Module 4: The Science of HIT: Theory and Practice

The next module is The Science of HIT: Theory and Practice, this is perhaps the epicenter of the whole course. We start with an overview of HITuni’s HIT protocol in 25 points, and the rest of the module breaks down each of these points in detail. You will get from this module, a lot of practical knowledge about how to apply HIT, how to create routines from the micro-detail to the macro.

Module 5: Exercise Demonstrations

You’ve understood the theory and the concepts behind HIT’s practical application, now you will need to learn the exercises that will enable you to flesh out real routines. Featuring individual video demonstrations of HITuni approved Dynamic exercises, including: 25 machine exercises, 24 free weight exercises and 17 bodyweight exercises. In addition to the videos there are photos with explanatory text for the HITuni approved Static exercises, including: 19 Timed Static Contraction exercises and 15 Adapted Static Hold exercises.

All the exercises are presented in 8 convenient bodypart sections, and further categorized by equipment choice, for easy reference and learning.

No matter what equipment you’ll be training your clients with; machines, free weights or bodyweight: you’ll be able to exercise them effectively.

In this module you will also benefit from our encyclopedic Routine Directory featuring over 120 High Intensity Training routines, equal attention is given to routines for machines, routines for free weights and routines for bodyweight. There are introductory and beginner routines, intermediate routines, advanced routines, body part specialization routines and even split routines. When looking for workout design inspiration or a suitable “off-the-peg” routine, this is your first port of call.

Module 6: Advanced Training Techniques I and II

In the exclusively expanded Masters Advanced Training Techniques module, you’ll learn the 20 most valuable Advanced Training Techniques in HIT, how to apply them, the exact circumstances in which they should be used, and with which clients. Each advanced technique is presented via its own video demonstration with voiceover and accompanying detailed notes.

Advanced Training Techniques covered:

Rep Assist/Forced Repetitions

Drop Sets

Rest Pause

Adapted Static Holds

Max Pyramid technique

Reps Within Reps techniques

20-10-5 technique

Mini Sets technique

Hyper Protocol technique

Loaded Stretch Pause technique

Negative Only technique

Negative Accentuated techniques

Pre-Exhaust and Post-Exhaust techniques

Partial ROM Reps at MMF

1 ¼ Repetitions techniques

Module 7: Working with Clients

In Working With Clients you will gain valuable insight into how to practically work with clients. We will take you through environment and equipment considerations, and what you will need to get started whether your budget is in the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or more!

You will learn exactly how to run appointments like an expert from the start, and have the guesswork taken out of interacting with clients. You will have access to exclusive video footage recorded live of a full introductory appointment from welcoming the client, to teaching the exercises, to ending the appointment. These videos condense over a decade’s worth of experience of introducing clients to High Intensity Training; from enabling the client to understand HIT from the outset, to doing and saying what is needed to ensure that they become a long-term client.You’ll then learn how to select initial weight loads for new clients.

We then go beyond the introductory appointment to look at how you should run and teach regular clients’ appointments including how you should behave during the client’s workout and how to coach effectively. You’ll learn how to start an appointment, how to instruct throughout the workout and how to end the appointment. You will discover what information you need to track, how to record it and where to keep that information.

We’ll then take a closer look at progression on the week-by-week basis, when load increases are needed, and appropriate transitioning of clients from beginner to intermediate to advanced levels.

Included in this module are 17 written scripts that you will use as templates for addressing exercise concepts with clients, along with a list of the 45 most important and effective verbal cues to use whilst the client is exercising. Also included is the official HITuni workout tracking sheet that you can use on your computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone, or even print out if you prefer to use a pencil!

Module 8: Working with Special Populations

The Working with Special Populations module covers the all the special population clients that are most likely to contact you and the concerns and special considerations you should make for these clients. You will also learn which are the conditions where exercise is contraindicated and under which circumstances it may be appropriate to refer these potential clients on to another professional.

Then we will take a detailed look at Special Population groups that you may want to work with including:

Injured individuals and rehabilitation (expanded)

Senior citizens

Clients with heart disease

Clients on medication

Athletes (expanded)

Pregnancy

Childhood and adolescence

Diseased clients, including:

Hypertension

Hypercholesterolaemia

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Asthma

Obesity

Diabetes

Hypoglycemia/Hyperglycemia

Arthritis

Osteopenia and Osteoporosis

Physical disability

Developmental disability

Stress, anxiety, depression

Module 9: Nutrition

The final module of the PT course is our in-depth nutrition module, this will give you a strong understanding of human nutrition, and nutrition that supports exercise and good health.

Although this course is primarily about exercise, a discipline and area of study that stands on its own merits, in the real world of personal training and working with clients it is also valuable to have a fundamental grasp of sound nutritional principles.

Many clients commence exercise as part of a holistic desire to improve not only their wellbeing but also they way they look, and losing body fat often plays fundamental role in this aspect. Additionally sound nutrition plays an important role in supporting and optimizing the benefits a client can attain from intense exercise in general. This module will give you an an understanding of nutrition that you will be able to impart to your clients where appropriate.

You will learn everything you need to know to pass on practical advice to clients whether their primary goal is to reduce bodyfat, increase lean tissue or simply to eat more healthfully.

Module 10: Wellbeing: Stress Resilience and Peak Performance

In this module, we focus exactly on how to manage lifestyle effectively to promote wellbeing and peak performance for both yourself and your clients.

We will look at the different types of stress that people face today and the symptoms these stressors can produce. We will see how the nervous system responds and taking this knowledge how you can best support your nervous system through simple everyday lifestyle strategies, including:

Heightened awareness and the required mindset

Mastering the Basic Rest Activity Cycle,

Mixing physical and mental relaxation strategies,

Breathing, meditation and power napping.

Circadian rhythm tactics and sleep.

By absorbing the information in this module and putting it to practice you will be able to achieve peak performance levels yourself. You will also have the knowledge and tools to be able to teach your clients how to look after themselves in ways that support their physical exercise and nutrition.

Module 11: Building your Business

Succeeding in setting up your business depends on you, your attitude and drive. We show you what it takes, guiding you through this process and hopefully inspire you along the way.

We will start out by covering introductory concepts such as defining your mission and vision statement and understanding the main streams of work in a fitness business.

We will address understanding the skills you need to have or develop, as well as why businesses fail and how to avoid that happening to you.

Next we will expand on the key topics, many of which are critical to your business success:

Legal status

Insurance

Location

Exercise equipment

Marketing

Finance

We will introduce market research and SWOT analysis, which will help you assess the business decisions you will make.

Then, we will focus in on the finance stream of work, including:

Budget

Typical expenses

Sales projections

Cash flow and resource allocation

Break-even point

Pricing models

Getting paid

We will then look at the importance of creating the right customer experience, and how to go about getting it right. We will also address why some clients stay and why clients leave and how you can retain the greatest number of clients.

The last topic we will cover, in this module, is that of growing your business. We will discuss what it means to grow your business, why and when to do it and the different possible ways to grow your business.

Module 12: Essentials of Marketing

This module is all about how to get the right product/service, in the right place, at the right price, at the right time… to the right consumer.

You will learn about fundamental marketing concepts, including the AIDA model and the three main market strategies: Cost Leadership, Product Differentiation and Market Segmentation.

We will delve into the strategic aspects of marketing and planning for your success.

We will define the marketing mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) and two variations of the mix – the 7Ps and the 4Ps of the social business. We will also explain consumer behavior and how to create target audience segments that work for your business.

Other areas we will address include your identity, your USP and your branding, and different methods for budgeting. We will then walk you through how to go about setting SMART objectives.

We will explore the benefits and strategies of Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing. We will detail metrics that you can use to measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts and your success.

You will learn about various aspects of sales and selling, such as buying signals, closing the deal and discussing money the your clients.

Learn online from anywhere with Internet access, even on your phone or tablet.

Post questions and get answers to your questions at the end of each lesson.

Skype call with a member of the HITuni team to answer any pressing questions included.

Your purchase includes the cost of the exam and certification.

Life-long access to the platform and your course material.

Who is this course for?

Anyone, who wants to become a Master Personal Trainer, specializing in High Intensity Training. This course is for those who aspire to be the best of the best and want to make a success as a personal trainer and a business person.

Anyone, who is driven to help themselves and others to benefit from exercise, nutrition and peak performance strategies.

You must be at least 16 years of age if you want to attain HITuni certification.

Of course you can still take the course, even if you don’t currently want to certify to train others, but still desire to have a deep understanding HIT for your own exercise and benefit.

Course material

Besides your notebook, we highly recommend that you purchase our recommended cutting edge Anatomy and Physiology app, but you are free to use an A&P book of your own, or other app if you already have one. This is the only essential addition to the course, everything else is provided by the course itself.

We do have a recommended reading list of books and research papers that will support your learning, although these are not essential to taking the course, or passing the exam.